1884 in India

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Events in the year 1884 in India.

Incumbents

• Empress of India – Queen Victoria
• Viceroy of India – George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
• Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin (from 13 December)

Events

• National income - ₹4,056 million
• The Webb case – District magistrate of Assam dismisses most charges against Charles Webb, who sexually assaulted and killed a female tea plantation worker; case galvanises public opinion against colonial rule^[1]

Law

• Explosives Act
• Colonial Prisoners Removal Act (British statute)
• Naval Discipline Act (British statute)
• Criminal Lunatics Act (British statute)
• Indian Marine Service Act (British statute)

Births

• 27 July - Sardar Bahadur Maharaj Jagat Singh Ji, Third Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (died 23 October 1951)
• March – Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, Hindu teacher (d.1960).
• 7 November – Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian (d.1967).
• 22 November – Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (d.1953).

Deaths

• 12 December – Charles Phillip Brown, writer and colonial official (b.1798).

References

1. Wright, Ashley (2020). "Gender, Violence, and Justice in Colonial Assam: The Webb Case, c. 1884". Journal of Social History. 53 (4): 990–1007. doi:10.1093/jsh/shz010 – via EBSCOHost.